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If you say so...

Childe of Malkav wrote:

If you say so...

Trust me, I am an engineer. Vegetarian of German ancestry, too. But I don't vape or do crossfit... And of course I am completely straight.

Feral bringing 9gag's memes over to this forum.

ThePhilosopher wrote:

Feral bringing 9gag's memes over to this forum.

*wags happily, gets on hind paws and licks Philo wetly across the face*

I don't get it?

ThePhilosopher wrote:

I don't get it?

The first one is so progressive it makes my gut twist. At the same time it is biologically true. Our first ancestors were all black. To make political claims based on it is of course ludicrous.

The second one is not too relevant, but funnily descriptive of some skaters I met...

*burps*

Also our ancestors were monkeys. Some evolved to think, some to scream.

Feral wrote:

Adam was black

Who cares? I'm colourblind.

Childe of Malkav wrote:

Feral wrote:

Adam was black

Who cares? I'm colourblind.

I do. There are certain very satysfying anatomical differences...

Jad.3 wrote:

Also our ancestors were monkeys. Some evolved to think, some to scream.

My ancestors were not monkeys. They do however, include all the common ancestors of monkeys and primates.

Dragatus wrote:

Jad.3 wrote:

Also our ancestors were monkeys. Some evolved to think, some to scream.

My ancestors were not monkeys. They do however, include all the common ancestors of monkeys and primates.

Your ancestors WERE primates. Great Apes, at that (or at least the direct precursor to them).

My point is that monkeys are not primates.

Dragatus wrote:

My point is that monkeys are not primates.

Sorry, but monkeys are Simiiformes, which are Haplorhini, which belong to the order Primate.

And the discusion on the size of black D and skateboarding escalated into a full blown argument at zoology... Who would have thought.

You're the only one talking about black Ds and skateboards, baby girl.

malak and draggy are just trying to out-bore one another

I just imagined the paperwork and taxes to build it in EU...

Found this book at a yard sale. Can one of you old-timers verify its accuracy for me?

Shamefully, I never heard of it...

malak wrote:

Dragatus wrote:

My point is that monkeys are not primates.

Sorry, but monkeys are Simiiformes, which are Haplorhini, which belong to the order Primate.

Oh, I see my error. I thought primates = apes, but I now see that's incorrect.

OK, then simply substitute all uses of "primate" with "ape". I also consider "monkey" to refer exclusively to simians with tails.

That one works, as "ape" is typically defined as "a large primate that lacks a tail, including the gorilla, chimpanzees, orangutan, and gibbons." Do note that "ape" is not a term in typical scientific nomenclature, but does get used almost interchangebly with "Hominoidea", a superfamily of Primates (order) Haplorhini (suborder) Simiiformes (infraorder) Catarrhini (parvorder).
Of note for this discussion, it that Humans, H.sapiens sapiens (yeah, we get the term twice), belong to the family Hominidae of the suborder Haplorhini. The term "Great Ape" is often used to describe the family Hominidae.

But the real questions here are: Where does H. s. s. Cainus belong in the tree, and does Feral represent a non-homonid member of the Cainite specie?

Nothing good can come from mixing vampires and science.

malak wrote:

But the real questions here are: Where does H. s. s. Cainus belong in the tree, and does Feral represent a non-homonid member of the Cainite specie?

You had Homo sapiens canis in mind, I presume? Reffering to canines and my fur by extension? Or Homo sapiens cainis? As in Caine?

@Jad: I am afraid you are dreadfully right.